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I write and think about culture (for fun and to pay my rent). My obsessive interest is people and how we work, individually and collectively, which makes me interested in most things, with a particularly keen interest in cogsci and psychology (I grew up around medical science). I studied painting and drawing at uni and I used to play in bands and work in the music industry. Maybe I'll switch to using my real name here eventually.

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DoomsdaysCW , to actuallyautistic
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Cooperative overlap (i.e.,
enthusiastic autistic interrupting)

"One thing many autistics frequently do is use a conversation style called cooperative overlap. More often than not, during the interview of my autism assessments, the other person will interrupt me with an excited statement about something I am talking about—if they are autistic. And inevitably, they apologize. But I always tell them, it is fine—it is my way of talking too! We are cooperative overlappers, a term introduced in the book Conversational Style: Analyzing Talk Among Friends (1984) by sociolinguist Deborah Tannen."

https://embrace-autism.com/cooperative-overlap-ie-enthusiastic-autistic-interrupting/

fifilamoura ,
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@DoomsdaysCW Just fyi, this may actually be more of a feature of ADHD than autism, though obviously for a lot of people there are overlap between the two. @actuallyautistic

admin , to blackmastodon
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Fifi says " But the way out of it is to say 'I believe this fine gentleman/lady was before me'"

I do always try this (when I forget and cough or clear my throat) -- but it usually does not work -- I get the responses I described I guess designed to help me feel okay about my "racist" action. VERY hard to escape getting waived forwards!

Agree on the discomfort with COVID and coughs -- this predates it from my early 20s to now over 3 decades of shopping.

@fifilamoura @EqualRightsAdvocates @blackmastodon

fifilamoura ,
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@admin Sorry, I deleted my post because I've never run into this and I suspect this is an American thing (not that there isn't racism in Canada and Quebec, there certainly is, it just often plays out differently than in the US). @EqualRightsAdvocates @blackmastodon

admin , to blackmastodon
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TITLE: OT: "Polite" Codes in Racism?

I'm a 54-year-old White guy in the USA and I have to infer that there must have been -- at one time not too long ago -- racist codes for "let the White person go first". I was never taught them, but I have to infer this from a few decades now of observing the following:

When I am standing in a small family-run store checkout line, and elderly Black people are in front of me, if I have a cough or need to clear my throat, something very strange happens. All eyes swivel backwards to look at me, and the elderly Black people in front of me all but fall over themselves to waive me to the FRONT OF THE LINE. Sometimes if I lock eyes with the shop keeper at the register, HE waives me forwards. At this point, there is NO POLITE GETTING OUT OF IT. I can try saying "I'm so sorry, I have a cold", or "you are clearly in front of me, please proceed", and none of it will work. Instead, I am given excuses to help ME feel better about myself. "Oh, no, I'm in no hurry", or "I have not quite decided if I have everything yet", or "the shopkeeper and I were just talking, we will be awhile, so please checkout first".

To be clear, I'm not the one being hurt (they are), but I AM mortified and embarrassed.

I've had to develop special procedures to combat this. I always stand a little further back in line, NEVER make eye contact with anyone, look intently at merchandise while waiting to checkout, and UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES ever clear my throat no matter how much I may need to.

I was reminded of this today when I (with plenty of room) passed an older Black woman in an aisle and merely nodded hello. She said "excuse me" and stepped backwards to give me more space. Huh.

Younger Black people don't do this (happily). Older Black people sometimes seem startled, like they have not encountered a White person coughing behind them in a long time -- but then their automatic training kicks in...

When I think about racism, I usually think about the more egregious examples (lynchings, denial of voting rights) but I have to wonder -- what was it like to just go on a mundane daily shopping trip in 1960?

QUESTION: Older folks reading this. Did/does this cough/throat-clear signal actually exist??

Thanks,
Michael

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@EqualRightsAdvocates @blackmastodon

fifilamoura ,
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@admin Interesting observation! But the way out of it is to say "I believe this fine gentleman/lady was before me" and privilege the Black person getting served first. And you are also being hurt in a way because you're being roped into performing anti-Blackness even though you don't want to! @EqualRightsAdvocates @blackmastodon

admin , to psychology
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I'm copying a public post below from an interesting Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Data Science at UNCC (not a medical doctor or psychologist).

Everything he is discussing is TENTATIVE but very interesting. I'm sending this out now because there is so little in the popular press about what can actually be done to help people with brain fog and other Long COVID symptoms. The research is still very early, and of course medical professionals should be consulted.

  1. The article link from Nature Magazine describes brain damage caused by SARS-CoV-2 related to cell death and especially to synapse loss, leading to cognitive impairment.

  2. The study in Bioelectric Medicine is extremely small, yet shows the potential of nicotine patches in the treatment of Long COVID symptoms including brain fog. (Another paper from the same publication also goes into why nicotine might help with Long COVID: https://bioelecmed.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s42234-023-00104-7 )

  3. He then points to a study on the NIH PubMed site reporting the encouragement of synapse growth from psilocybin.

  4. A comment in the discussion thread also links to a British Medical Journal article on Metformin improving Long COVID symptoms ( https://www.bmj.com/content/381/bmj.p1306 )

There's further speculation in the discussion thread that other psychoactive substances might be helpful. There are perhaps AI bots in the discussion thread discussing psilocybin microdosing, so be aware of that and maybe not get excited that so many "people" are discussing it.

From: <https://ourislandgeorgia.net/@Wolven/111412769611401616>

Dr. Damien P. Williams  
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…HUH. Long-COVID destroys synapses, and is a major contributor to the brainfog. <https://www.nature.com/articles/s41380-022-01786-2>

This goes some way to shining a light on the promising results they've been seeing in testing nicotine patches as treatment for long covid: nicotine effects synapse formation and receptivity (tests using patches because they don't habit-form and aren't, y'know, SMOKE [<https://bioelecmed.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s42234-023-00104-7>]).

But what's super interesting to me is that another thing that's also been shown to encourage synapse growth? Is psilocybin.  
<https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34228959/>  
From: <https://ourislandgeorgia.net/@Wolven/111412769611401616>

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fifilamoura ,
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@admin Beware the people promoting nicotine patches for Covid, they're often funded by the tobacco industry. Early on in the pandemic there was a french researcher (funded by the tobacco industry) that was promoting the idea that smoking protected against covid. https://exposetobacco.org/resource/smoking-covid-french-study/

@Wolven @psychotherapist @psychology @socialpsych @socialwork

fifilamoura ,
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@admin I'm not saying there might not be some legit research, just pointing out the whole French "smoking protects from Covid" idiocy that was making the rounds in the French media for a while and that one of the researchers involved in that is funded by the tobacco industry. @Wolven @psychotherapist @psychology @socialpsych @socialwork

BigAngBlack , to blackmastodon
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‘ is the reality we live’: show celebrates sound of the favela | | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/nov/05/funk-is-the-reality-we-live-rio-de-janeiro-show-celebrates-the-sound-of-the-favela

> Exhibition puts music previously shunned by elites as ‘stuff of outlaws’ in long tradition of culture and resistance

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fifilamoura ,
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@BigAngBlack Unfortunately, screwing over banks and lying about his wealth is unlikely to do much to erode support for him. Banks are not the most sympathetic victims and I'm sure most of his supports do similar things. @BlackMastodon @blackmastodon

SallyStrange , to bookstodon
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: Young children (up until the age of about 7 - 11) can regenerate their fingertips.

This is from "We Are Electric" by Sally Adee, which is all about the body's bioelectric code. Apparently electrical fields and electrical charges are the software to the hardware that is our DNA.

The fingertip regeneration was discovered by researchers investigating how salamanders regenerate limbs. Of course it's not something you can easily test, but there are enough people who grew up without easy access to medical care that this is a known fact.

@bookstodon

fifilamoura ,
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@SallyStrange 😮​@bookstodon

estelle , to psychology
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is a philosophical position or view that is the source of knowledge.

Vernon J. wrote that rationalism is defined as a methodology or a theory "in which the criterion of is not sensory but intellectual and deductive."
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fifilamoura ,
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@toolbear @estelle @sociology @ethics @kcarruthers The second paragraph in the story is about Timnit coining the term, not sure why you're going after Dave Troy who is a journalist reporting ion these things (and who has a much clearer understanding of the trouble we are in than most mainstream journalists seem to have).

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